TL;DR; Selling off land in places without jobs doesn’t create useful housing for people. What it does do is turn what had been public space into private space for the wealthy.
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TL;DR; Selling off land in places without jobs doesn’t create useful housing for people. What it does do is turn what had been public space into private space for the wealthy.
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Every eight years we experience another turn of the Ratchet.
Republicans: We’ve privatized, deregulated, overpoliced, and gutted civil rights for another corner of civil society.
Democrats: Sorry, there’s nothing we can do to fix this. You guys just should not have voted Republican. Anyway, here’s Richie Torres, keynote speaker at Welcomefest, to tell progressives to fuck off.
Or Democrats: Hey, we started making some changes as part of this term. We are going to need more support to get additional items done.
Leftists: This isn’t good enough so I’m not voting for you as punishment.
Republicans: Great, now we can deregulate more!
Trump does more in six months than Biden managed in four years, despite having thinner Congressional margins and far less popular support.
Again, this goes back to DeJoy. It goes back to ICE administration. It goes to Biden’s intervention to kneecap labor during the COVID era strike wave. It goes to Merrick Garland sitting on his hands for four fucking years while Republicans continued to commit crime after crime.
Biden didn’t make progressive changes. He squandered his time in office, refused to impede Project 2025, and sent hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of Republican mega-donors that ultimately wrecked his VP’s chances at an electoral win.
For what? So he could keep funding a genocide in Gaza?
Why did Jared Polis veto the anti-price gouging renter bill?
Trump is also completely ignoring the law, to the point of trying to suspend habeus corpus.
Every president since Gitmo opened has been operating under suspended habeus corpus.
It’s feels off to me when not voting for someone who doesn’t share your politics is described as “protest” or “punishment”. Wouldn’t you expect a person not to vote for a candidate who doesn’t share their politics or represent their interests?
At a certain point, I’m voting for the person who most likely aligns with my views. Democrats may have 50%, but Republicans have 0%.